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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Old 2000 keyboard
Message-ID: <1223@agora.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 01:58:40 GMT
References: <2857@ingr.UUCP:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <2857@ingr.UUCP:, by crooks@ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks):
: I've just discovered that my 2000 came with the old style keyboard that
: messes up some stuff because of timing problems.  Yes, it took me quite
: a while to confirm this, but I'm not a big game fan, and I could always
: play them on my wife's 1000.  The Processor Accelerator, however.... 
: 
: I seem to remember that a simple hardware hack to fix this problem was
: floating around a long, long time ago.  Is this true, or am I just
: dreaming? If a hack does exist, I would very much appreciate it if
: someone would email me the docs on how to do it. 

	I don't have the hack handy, but I do remember getting it off of
People Link. If you have access there, or know someone who does... I gave
it a try on my old keyboard when it first came out, but had ambiguous
results. (I was using a 74123 oneshot rather than the recommended 74LS123)
There has been a good discussion about this very thing on PLink lately,
with several people who've successfully done the hack and had it work at
14MHz. I'd definately give it a try before buying a new keyboard. (As a
matter of fact, that's just exactly what I ended up doing...)

: Steve Crooks			...uunet!ingr!crooks!crooks
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